Costa Rica Travelers Spot Surprising Patch of Home
Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, is over 3,000 miles from Greenbelt. Located there is Café & Macadamia, a roadside restaurant and gift shop, where the scent of cinnamon and coffee mingle in the warm morning air to arrest your senses. After passing to the outdoor seating area, the panorama of Lake Árenal, a vast body of […]
ERHS Soccer Star Vies for Spot on Zambian World Cup Roster
Some of the best soccer players in the world will convene in Australia and New Zealand for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup this summer. The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team will start their campaign on July 21 against Vietnam, while the Zambian squad will face Japan the following day. For fans of Prince George’s […]
The Smells of Summer Camp: YOGOs Get Non-stop Action
Most Camp YOGO mornings begin with an adolescent chorus of “Smells like summer!” in response to a semi-rhetorical questioning of “Smell that, YOGOs?” While it may be impossible to describe the exact smells of summer or fully quantify their effects, the enthusiasm that fills this group of more than 30 campers on a daily basis […]
Camp Pine Tree’s Magic Returns
The sounds of summer have almost fully returned to the Greenbelt Youth Center after two years of non-traditional summer camp due to the Coronavirus pandemic. After a virtual format in 2020 and a half-day camp last year, Camp Pine Tree campers are enjoying their first full camp days since the summer of 2019. The only […]
ERHS Outlasts Winston Churchill For Fourth State Title in 10 Years
The Eleanor Roosevelt Raiders continue their reign as state champions after successfully defending their 2019 state title – the last contested state championship due to Covid-19 – with a 54-49 double overtime victory over Montgomery County’s Winston Churchill High School Bulldogs. Though this title looked in doubt for much of the second half and both […]
Roosevelt Basketball Teams Aim for State Championships
It’s been nearly three years since the Eleanor Roosevelt Raiders boys basketball team blitzed the Broadneck Bruins, 77-48, for the 2019 Maryland 4A state championship and the Raiders are still the defending state champions. The coronavirus pandemic erased the 2020 state playoffs and the entire 2021 season, and Roosevelt is now looking to defend its […]
On Bracelets and Memories: Camp Pine Tree Tradition
A cornucopia of colorful bracelets adorns the wrists of Camp Pine Tree counselor Taylor Carrion, now five years removed from her first summer as a camp intern. Each bracelet is the fruit of a time-honored camp tradition with bright beads carefully selected from seemingly infinite possibilities. It is activities like this, dodgeball, gaga ball and […]
Folklore y diversión para campistas: Haz que suene a verano
Suena a verano en Greenbelt otra vez. La calidez de una húmeda mañana de julio se filtraba dentro y fuera de cada palabra de la tradición del Campamento YOGO cuando una nueva generación de campistas aprendía sobre el misterio del “amongalong” – “una criatura mítica pero muy real” – y la risa infantil más la […]
Camper Folklore and Fun: Make It Sound Like Summer
Este artículo está disponible en español en nuestra página web www.greenbeltnewsreview.com. It sounds like summer in Greenbelt again. The warmth of a humid July morning seeped in and out of each word of Camp YOGO lore as a new crop of campers learned about the mystery of the amongalong – “a mythical yet very real […]
ERHS Class of 2020 Grads’ Awards Celebrated Virtually
Though health precautions necessitated a virtual Senior Awards Ceremony, the bright futures of the Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) class of 2020 shone brightly the evening of June 3. Valedictorian Melissa Jones and Edwin Gamez Hernandez received the Chief Executive Officer’s Award, while Chloe Widman and Matthew Miller earned the Principal’s Award. The Eleanor Roosevelt […]